Kids News - Articles for Grade 9

Most spiders spend their days spinning webs to snare unsuspecting insects - Not the Bagheera Kiplingi - this species spends its days conniving to steal leaves....

Are zebras simply donkeys with stripes? The Mara Land Zoo on the Gaza strip near Israel, certainly seems to think so - For they have painted two of their donkeys with stripes and so far, visitors seem to be loving them....

Each Summer, hundreds of kids and adults participate in sand sculpture events all over the world. However, for most of them it is merely a hobby. Not for Sudarsan Pattnaik though - He takes it so seriously, that he has even opened a school called Sand India, where he and his team teach students how to create stunning sand sculptures....

'Fit Fun and Forever Young' - that's the slogan for the 2009 World Masters Games currently going on in Sydney and they mean it - For in these games anybody from 25 to 100+, is welcome to compete in any sport they see fit....

Attention all budding Einstein wannabes! The 2009-2010 Kids Science Challenge for 3rd to 6th graders is on again, and this time around the topics are even more fun....

While the Python Water Car may not look as slick as a Porsche or an Aston Martin - It is capable of doing something way cooler - like zooming in and out of water with amazing ease and at twice the speed of currently available amphibious vehicles....

It turns out that our favorite-ringed planet Saturn, has yet another ring - one that is so massive, that it could fit one billion Earths!...

Malia and Sasha Obama woke up to some very exciting news this morning - Their dad, President Barack Obama was named the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the world's most prestigious honor, awarded annually, to a person who has done the most or the best work to promote peace in the world....

Would people choose to climb rather than take an escalator if the stairs were more fun? While this may sound like a no-brainer to kids, it is not as clear-cut with adults. Hence the folks at car company Volkswagen, decided to try this fun stunt and the results, as most kids would say - were quite predictable....